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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, November 16, 1955 Rugged War Maneuvers Off Southern California Coast Takes Lives of i 1 Men Camp Pendleton, Calif. fU.R: Six Marines' lost when two landing craft overturned raised to 11 today the total of service men killed in rugged air, land and sea military maneuvers off the Southern California coast. Two Marines were drowned and four were lost and pre sumed drowned yesterday when the heavy wind-lashed surf near Southern Oregon's COMPLETE TOY STORE is ready with a huge stock in cluding every wanted toy! Open Wednesday Night 'til 9 THE I n.r I HOUSE 317 East Main this base upset the craft. It was the second major tragedy and the third accident of the joint U. S.-Canadian war man euvers. Crash Costs Five Lives Last Friday a U. S. Navy Sky raider jet attack bomber crashed into the destroyer U. S. S. Hope well during a simulated attack, costing five lives. Three men were killed in the plane and two aboard the destroyer. Last Wednesday night the de stroyer U. S. S. Boyd collided with a Japanese freighter. The sea crash caused no injuries or deaths but the destroyer was damaged badly. The amphibious landing acci dent occurred yesterday as 15. 000 members of the famed First Marine Division staged an as sault on the nearby beach. Over turned in the rough surf were a seagoing tractor and a rubber assault raft. Dead Identified Marine headquarters identi fied two men aboard the am phibious tractor whose bodies were recovered as Maj. Ralph H. Pratt, commander of the Third Amphibious Tractor Bat talion, and Pfc. James F. Brown, 19. Pratt is from Oceanside, Calif., and Brown resided in Rock Island. 111. The missing and presumed dead were listed as: Second Lt. James Todd, 23, husband of Mrs. E. Todd, Ocean side. Pfc. Donald G. McCreery, 19, son of Bernice McCreery of Mitchell, S. D. Cpl. John Ayers, 22, son of MacDuffy Ayers, Houston, Tex. Pfc. Warren E. Morgan, 20, son of Merle Morgan, Orford ville, Wis. Gas Pipeline Hears Completion Salt Lake City (U.R) The first major 387-mile segment of a S217,000,000 natural gas pipe line stretching 2,200 miles from New Mexico to Canada will be "solid" in the ground by next week end. When the huge project is fin ished next fall it will bring natural gas for the first time to 3,500,000 persons along its route to the power-hungry Pacific Northwest. R. D. Ricketts, president of Fish Northwest Constructors Inc., said by next Sunday, Nov. 20, the line will be in "solid" from Ignacio, Colo., north to Green River, Wyo., a distance of 387 miles. When it is finished the line will be turned over to the Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp. But right now the project belongs to the genial, pipe-smoking Ricketts and his job is to get more than 300,000 tons of steel pipe strung across some of the roughest terrain in the country by next fall. CreWs are working right through the mountain winter.- '. Ricketts said 850 miles of the line will be underground by the end of the year. Of the total length, 1,480 miles will be main line pipe 26 or 22 inches in diameter. The remainder ' is branch pipe varying from 20 to three -inches. At the Granges Only six per cent of all Am erican families with incomes of more than $7,500 a year don't own an automobile. Twenty-six per cent of the families in this group own two or more. Shady Core Grange The Shady Cove Grange met Kov. 9 with a good attendance. Visitors were Henry Henderson, state-deputy; Roscoe Roberts, state steward; and William Howes, state overseer. All gave interesting talks. Brother Howes stressed community service as the principal work of the Grange. The remainder of the evening was given over to election of of ficers for the coming year. Cecil Kee was elected master. Others named included: Edd Housten, overseer: Edgar Van derlip, lecturer; Reed McKay, steward; Phil Motchenbacher, as sistant steward; Mrs. Edgar Van derlip, chaplain; Mrs. Cecil Kee, secretary; Agness Brown, treas urer; Mrs. Rico Bertoglio, gate keeper; Mrs. Walter Cross, lady assistant steward; Mrs. Phil Motchenbacher, Ceres; Mrs. Reed McKay, Pomona; Mrs. Edd Housten, Flora; and Travis Lit tlefield, Bert Clark and Reco Bertoglio, executive board mem bers. Cake and coffee were served after the meeting. The Home Economics club met with Mrs. Barnie Lewen in Med ford Nov. 8, honoring our Grange mother, Mrs. Ida Otto, Mr. Lew en's mother, on her birthday. A luncheon was served at 1 p.m. The ladies presented Mrs. Otto a beautiful scarf and a hand kerchief ' shower. Mrs. Edgar Vanderlip was elected chairman for the coming year; Mrs. Cecil Kee vice-chairman; Mrs. Lewis Dusenberry, secretary; and Mrs Reco Bertoglio, treasurer. Final arrangements were made for the dinner to be served for the Lions and .wives on Nov. 17 at the Shady Cove school din ing room.' Visitors present were Mrs. Edith Poe, Pomona HEC chair man; Mrs. Lillian Force and Mrs. Carr, Phoenix chairman. The Grange Booster Night was held Oct. 12. Several prospective members were present. Master Reed McKay gave the welcoming address. Phil Motchenbacher gave a short history of the Grange, followed by a short his tory of the Shady Cove Grange by Mrs. Motchenbacher. The visitors were introduced. The highlight of the lecturer's pro gram was a short skit by Mr. and Mrs. Reed McKay aided by Edd Housten. A reading was given by Mrs. Travis Littlefield. A skit by Mrs. Edd Housten, Mrs. Trav is Littlefield, Mrs. Lewis Dusen berry, Edgar Vanderlip, Mrs. Reed McKay and Mrs. Reco Bertoglio. Colored slides were shown, taken in Japan and Ko rea by Charles Kee. The fall harvest decorations were by Mrs. Edd Housten and Mrs. Reed McKay. Coffee and cake were served after the program. Mentally-Ill Patient Kills Doctor With Gun . San Francisco (U.R) A mentally . ill patient shot and killed a 28-year-old doctor in the Herbert C. Moffitt Hospital at the University of California medical center here today. Dr. George Guiid was killed instantly by a single shot in the face fired by the patient, Ru dolph Isaacson, 41, of San Fran cisco., Isaacson .was in Agnews State Hospital for treatment of a mental illness last year. Dead line Sunday Classified la at noon Saturday: 1 a. m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day 1. 2. ECHO POINT ECHO POINT 71 3. Be 5 rl ECHO C : POINT : t" n AaG N 5. Better selection. Ford Dealers sell more new cars than other dealers. So they have more wonderfully good turn-ins to be sold as used cars. Whatever make or model you want, you're most likely to find it at your Ford Dealers'. Lower prices. Ford Dealers are volume dealers. Their business prospers on quick turn-over. 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"The areas through which we will travel are among the most inter esting in the United States from the standpoint of geography and geology." - From Waukesha the students go to Denver, Colo., where field trips will be made into the Colorado Front Range of the southern Rockies. A study of the evidence . of mountain building and stream and glacial action will be made there. Other highlights of the tour will include visits to Colorado Springs, Garden of the Gods, Seven Falls, Pike's Peak, the Royal Gorge, Sawatch Moun tains and South Park. The class will study the Goshen Hole, the Sand Hills, the Black Hills -of South Dakota, and Pine Ridge Escarpment. It will go through the Home- stake Gold Mine, the uranium buying depot at Edgemont, and the Bentonite mines and mills in Belle Fourche. Also included will be stops at Black, Hills Na tional Forest, Custer State Park, Wind Cave, Mr. Rushmore and irrigation projects and other de velopments in the Missouri River valley. Bulldozers Stir Strange Problems Chicago (U.R) When bull dozers and wrecking crews move in to start a rebuilding program they can stir up a lot of strange problems. According to the National As sociation tof Housing and Rede velopment Officials, such prob lems have included: (1) The unsightly pattern of bricks, plaster and stairway out lines left " on walls when adja cent structures are torn down. ' .(2) Rats settling uninvited in new locations when their old residences have been demolished. (3) Birds who must find new roosting places when their fields become sites for new develop ments. . . . The, housing association. .. said the owner of the building with the unsightly wall apparently, is not legally obligated to clean up the mess if it projects past his property line. The health department in Washington devised a way of dealing with the rat problem. The redevelopment agency should notify health officials when a building about to be de molished has been vacated. Then exterminators can move in be fore the rats find out their cup boards are bare. In Buffalo, N. Y., nature lovers decried the fact that a vacant site being leveled for a new low rent housing project had been the home for many birds. In Chicago, the land clearance commission was trying to come to terms ' with a holdout owner of property scheduled for rede velopment. The commission got the own er's wife to agree to its price. Then, in a public hearing, the owner accused the commission of breaking up his marriage and threatened to name the slum clearance agency as correspond ent in a divorce suit. Arrests Solve 50 Portland Robberies Portland (U.R) Police said today that at least 50 burglaries involving some $10,000 in cash and merchandise were believed solved with arrest of four per sons, including a woman. Detective Captain William Browne said the four were tak en into custody Monday after a 48-hour surveillance by city po lice and sheriffs deputies. He said questioning had clear ed thefts from a number of gun shops, taverns, dental offices, fi nance companies, warehouses cleaning establishments, theaters and electrical appliance stores. Arrested were Arthur Le Val ley, 23; Robert Murray, 27; Ev erett Coffman, 28, and Wanda A. Shipp, 24. Le Valley was charged with burglary; Coffman with lar ceny by embezzlement; Miss Shipp with receiving and possess ing stolen property and Murray with possession of stolen prop erty, burglary and violation of federal parole. . for Best Results! Low in Cost! Use Tribune Want Ads Signal Clears Way In Emergencies Chicago U.R) Suburban Maywood, III., has become the first community in the world to install a new radio control traf fic signal system which auto matically clears the route for emergency vehicles. " Mobile radio "' transmitters, mounted on each of the emer gency vehicles, transmit : radio signals approximately one-half mile ahead of them. 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